Versie 3.3 van het cross-platform en opensource programma Blender is uitgekomen. Deze applicatie is bedoeld voor 3d-modelling, animatie, rendering, post-production, interactive creation en playback. Meer informatie over de uitgebreide mogelijkheden van Blender kan op deze pagina worden gevonden. Met dit programma zijn onder meer de korte opensource-animatiefilms Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Cosmos Laundromat en Sprite Fright gemaakt. Versie 3.3 is niet alleen de uitgave in de 3.xx-serie die voorzien is van extra lange ondersteuning, het is wederom een release met heel veel veranderingen, teveel om hier op te noemen. Hier is een kort overzicht van de belangrijkste verbeteringen:
Among the many changes to find with today's Blender 3.3 release are:
- Initial support for Intel oneAPI back-end with the Cycles renderer. This is intended for use with Intel Arc Graphics / Data Center discrete GPUs and not existing integrated Intel graphics. This requires also using recent Intel compute driver releases. This is still work-in-progress and look for more Intel GPU acceleration in future releases.
- The AMD HIP back-end has been extended to now work going back to GFX9/Vega hardware on Windows and Linux. RDNA1 and GFX9/Vega issues were worked out since Blender 3.2 to allow broader AMD Radeon GPU support for Blender.
- Improved Apple Metal rendering GPU performance on macOS.
- OpenVDB volumes are rendered with half-float rather than full-float precision to yield significantly lower memory usage.
- NVIDIA's OptiX denoiser has better performance now when rendering with multiple NVIDIA GPUs.
- "Drastically improved" drawing performance when sculpting with EEVEE enabled.
- Much better performance for LineArt with the grease pencil.
- A new hair workflow is possible with the new curves object type that has a sculpt mode intended for hair grooming.
- Improved usability of the Library Overrides UI/UX.
- Full support for camera's background images.
- JPEG preview thumbnails are created faster while also using less RAM. EXR preview thumbnail images should also consume less RAM.
- Font fallback support.
- Various performance improvements to geometry nodes.
- Improved performance when importing USD / Alembic / OBJ files with large numbers of objects. For a USD production scene with 260 thousand objects its reported to drop from 3.5 hours to 1.5 minutes.
- A new experimental STL importer that is written in C++ and about eight times fasster than the former Python-written STL importer.
- glTF 2.0 handling improvements for import/export.
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